No high-speed rail? Pathetic.

Maybe it’s a recent brush with the space-age wonder of traveling through a country at 200-plus mph, but I just can’t figure out why the (supposedly) most powerful and innovative country on the planet is too feeble and short-sighted to have a high-speed rail system.

It’s an accomplishment that plenty of other countries have managed, but we seem incapable of. It’s just sad.